Hi Erik,

Are you using openshift-sdn or multitenant-sdn or something else? Are you
running OpenShift Container Platform 3.1?

Are you just communicating with the pod IP directly?

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On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 4:27 AM, Roosemeyers Erik <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I'm testing network connectivity (speed and reliability) on a OpenShift
> cluster 3.1.
>
>
>
> I do this with 2 pods, each based on iperf3 Docker image.
>
>
>
> First pod starts iperf3 as server, other one as iperf3 client with: iperf3
> -c iperf3 -t 120 (iperf3 name of server pod).
>
>
>
> What I notice is high throughput but also big retransmission rates:
>
> eg.
>
> duration              Transfer              Bandwidth
> Retransmissions (TCP)
>
> 0.00-120.00 sec 214 GBytes         15.3 Gbits/sec   170478
>
>
>
> If the pods are on 2 different nodes, the retransmission rate is smaller
> (as is throughput):
>
>
>
> duration              Transfer              Bandwidth
> Retransmissions (TCP)
>
> 0.00-120.00 sec 22.6 GBytes       1.62 Gbits/sec   3627
>
>
>
> What I was wondering - what causes this higher retransmission rates ?
> (Mostly, it's a sign the are network problems but is it ?)
>
>
>
> (I did some other tests, like deploying the containers via the Docker
> daemon onto 1 server. And even on a local laptop with only Docker daemon
> installed - and I always saw these tcp retransmission rates...)
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance !
>
>
>
> kind regards,
>
> Erik
>
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